Music – Page 2 – JEFF GARVIN

Epic Reads: 6 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

January 27, 2016
Film, Music, Personal, Video

The superbly fun crew at Epic Reads made a video about the 6 Things You Don’t Know About Me. Inside: the history of my hair, plus my teenage screen kiss.

CBS’s Person of Interest to Feature Music from My Band

April 13, 2015
Music, News, Personal

BEFORE I WROTE BOOKS, I used to be in a rock band called 7k. We made four albums, a live DVD, and toured the US twice. It was an incredible experience and I loved every minute of it. This Tuesday, April 14, at 10PM ET/PT, one of our songs, “Take It Off,” will be used* in an episode of the CBS crime...

Guest Post: Jonathan Yañez

May 8, 2014
Music, Writing

WRITING TO MUSIC by Jonathan Yañez No matter how many schools I go to, book signings I attend, or speeches I deliver, I can always count on one question to be asked. “Do you listen to music while you write? And if so, what do you listen to?” Everyone wants to know if writers have a secret...

Meiko: Leave the Lights On

April 16, 2014
Music

CANDY COATING I’m a rocker at heart–one glance at my hair (and tattoos, and clothes, okay I get your point) will tell you that. I cut my teeth on Nirvana, R.E.M., and Guns ‘N Roses. But I do loves me some good pop music, especially anything with a quirky vocal or an alt or indie...

Under The Influence

April 5, 2014
Music, Personal, Uncategorized

Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man” Music and stories are more than entertainment to me. I’ve read books that seemed to express my deepest self better than my own words ever could. I’ve heard songs that somehow captured years of my life perfectly in under four minutes. In this series, which...

Black Market Hearts

February 18, 2014
Music

UNUSUAL BLUES Let’s get this straight right off the bat: I am not a blues fan. Or, at least, I didn’t think I was. And, to make things worse, I experienced Mark Wein’s new blues record, Black Market Hearts, under the worst conditions possible: in my dying car stereo after enduring nine hours of threshold-of-pain...